A Losing Hand

Played out by the band
Love is a losing hand
More than i could stand
Love is a losing hand
Self-professed, profound

Til the chips were down
I know you're a gambling man
Love is a losing hand

Love is a Losing Game
(Winehouse)
Amy Winehouse

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Dita Von Teese 

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #159

Le Dos Au Mur

The Yakuza

Lured

The Conformist

Reign of Terror (Black Book)

Angel Heart

Mr Arkadin

Carol

Detour

Nickel Ride

Dementia

Insomnia (1997)

Killers Kiss

In the Mood for Love

Criss Cross

Vertigo

Torment (1944)

Romeo is Bleeding

Strangers on a Train

Postman Always Rings Twice

Knife in the Water

Body Heat

I Want To Live

Night Clerk

Your Own Flame

     
         You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame ; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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More Bad Cops

Mob City

Touch of Evil

Sopranos

Slightly Scarlet

Guilty Bystander

Serpico

Fallen Angels - The Quiet Room (S1-E3)

Private Hell 36

Heaven's Prisoners

The Prowler

Internal Affairs

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Romeo is Bleeding

Keep Dancing

Odd Man Out

  I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though i have all faiths so that I could remove mountains and have not charity. I am nothing.

Odd Man Out

1947

Become Consumed

          My mother's crime scene to me is all crime scenes. The crime scene to me is - it's primal. Almost oedipal. The moment of the discovery of her body is in many ways the moment of my birth, because it's the genesis of my detectives obsessions with the murders that they ultimately become consumed by.

James Ellroy

Ellroy outside the restaurant where his mother was last seen alive in 1958

https://unsolved.com/gallery/jean-ellroy/

Dark Reflections #47

Panique

Memento

House By the River

Taxi Driver

Out of the Past

Red Rock West

Lost Weekend

The Getaway (1972)

The Good German

Black Swan

Touch of Evil

Sopranos

Human Desire

Nightcrawler

Narrow Margin (1952)